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I am glad that I can take R to museums. He’s just an 8 year-old boy interested in Lego and stories and fishing (though he never tried that just yet) but, with a bit of luck, he plays along and I can take him to exhibitions in art museums. The...
Wed, 19 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200https://cento.red/2018-09-19-nhm/
https://cento.red/2018-09-19-nhm/Five Senses
She was American. Over seventy, I think. She came to this city for her son’s wedding which took place over the weekend. Now, Monday, she felt tired and thought she wouldn’t really want to talk — just hang around and look at the people. But then, slowly, we actually became...
Wed, 05 Sep 2018 00:00:00 +0200https://cento.red/2018-09-05-five-senses/
https://cento.red/2018-09-05-five-senses/Pont-l'Évêque
We were in Normandy for almost a week already. That day we drove to Étretat and spent a few hours there, going up the hill with the church on top and enjoying the view. The sky was overcast but it didn’t rain. We walked around, through tall grasses, peeking at...
Thu, 23 Aug 2018 00:00:00 +0200https://cento.red/2018-08-23-pont-l-v-que/
https://cento.red/2018-08-23-pont-l-v-que/Haludovo Hotel
A while ago I listened to a podcast about how kids and teenagers spend their time when they are alone, without adults. There were three stories: The Land, the Tracks and Heyoon. I could add another one to the list - the Haludovo Hotel on the island Krk in Croatia....
Fri, 18 May 2018 00:00:00 +0200https://cento.red/2018-05-18-haludovo/
https://cento.red/2018-05-18-haludovo/Roots
Spring seems to have finally arrived. I think I can say this now. After all, it’s mid April already. Just a month ago it was so cold that I felt even words would freeze if spoken. The world was nothing but a gray and dry mass (with a hint of...
Mon, 16 Apr 2018 00:00:00 +0200https://cento.red/2018-04-16-roots/
https://cento.red/2018-04-16-roots/Margaret Atwood – Epiloguri fericite
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John şi Mary se întîlnesc. Ce se întîmplă apoi? Dacă vreți un final fericit, încercați A. A. John și Mary se îndrăgostesc și se căsătoresc. Amîndoi au servicii bune, bine plătite, care le stimulează curiozitatea și pe care le fac cu plăcere. Își cumpără o casă adorabilă. Prețurile imobilelor cresc....
Fri, 16 Mar 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://cento.red/2018-03-16-margaret-atwood-epiloguri-fericite/
https://cento.red/2018-03-16-margaret-atwood-epiloguri-fericite/Peter Stamm - Foc
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Sub Căzătura Vacii era o peștera în care pe timpul iernii se făceau cei mai frumoși țurțuri. Locul se chema așa pentru că acolo, demult, o vacă a murit alunecînd de pe stînci. La peștera asta ne-am dat întîlnire. Sven și cu mine. Se spunea că din peşteră era un...
Tue, 16 Jan 2018 00:00:00 +0100https://cento.red/2018-01-16-peter-stamm-foc/
https://cento.red/2018-01-16-peter-stamm-foc/2017 - Taking Stock
Last thing I did in 2017 was going to a show in Salzburg. It was advertised as a… circus. But… it wasn’t, really. It was more like theater. Silent theater. The show begins with people coming up on the stage, barefoot and in street clothes. Your usual trousers, short skirts,...
Sun, 31 Dec 2017 00:00:00 +0100https://cento.red/2017-12-31-2017-taking-stock/
https://cento.red/2017-12-31-2017-taking-stock/Words
R started school this year. Just a few weeks went by but he’s already devouring (mostly unconsciously) whatever is being thrown at him. He scribbles away in his notebooks and is bragging when he’s happy with the results. “Did you see my 2? Did you see it? I know how...
Tue, 10 Oct 2017 09:00:13 +0200https://cento.red/2017-10-10-words/
https://cento.red/2017-10-10-words/Three men in the mud
We were supposed to be four in a boat but one got sick. We were supposed to be by the sea spending a whole weekend there and getting our motor boat driving licences, because… why not? - we are the cool daddies aren’t we? I mean really, our kids would’ve...
Thu, 05 Oct 2017 09:00:13 +0200https://cento.red/2017-10-05-three-men/
https://cento.red/2017-10-05-three-men/The Ultimate Technological Sublime
The Ultimate Technological Sublime Gabriel Furmuzachi Abstract: We are interested here in a short philosophical analysis of teleportation which, we consider, constitutes the ultimate greatness of technology. The teleportation experiment is used in philosophy usually in connection with discussions about identity: for example, if the person who leaves from point...
Wed, 20 Sep 2017 09:00:13 +0200https://cento.red/2017-09-20-techonological-sublime/
https://cento.red/2017-09-20-techonological-sublime/Cinzano
From Alain Weil - The Poster : David Thorpe. #Cinzano 1974 #artbook A post shared by Gabi Fugabi (@fugabi) on Sep 12, 2017 at 10:47pm PDT
Wed, 13 Sep 2017 08:02:00 +0200https://cento.red/2017-09-13-cinzano/
https://cento.red/2017-09-13-cinzano/Interviu Maria Răduţu
Maria Răduţu a avut darul, încă din vremea copilăriei, de a umple sală după sală cu oameni dornici să o asculte cîntînd la pian. Un adevărat copil minune, a reuşit să concerteze în toată lumea, de la Bucureşti la New York şi de la Madrid la Bangkok, atît solo cît...
Wed, 30 Aug 2017 09:00:13 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-30-interviu-maria-radutu/
https://cento.red/2017-08-30-interviu-maria-radutu/Stop That!
Tram nr. 2 crosses Brunnenmarkt, the colorful and loud street market in Ottakring. That’s where the boy got in. His mother was busy on the phone but gestured him to sit in the empty seat right in front of me. He held his steamy kebab with both hands and was...
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 11:50:13 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-25-stop-that/
https://cento.red/2017-08-25-stop-that/Conversing
At first, I could only hear the sound made by something being dragged on the pavement. Then I saw her and her enormous broken suitcase. She noticed me looking at her and after a couple of seconds of uncertainty she opened the door of the shop and got in. Sorry,...
Fri, 25 Aug 2017 10:55:29 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-25-conversing/
https://cento.red/2017-08-25-conversing/Art
On Bookworm, last night, I’ve had the chance to hear a new name which, I think, will preoccupy me for a while in the next time. Walter Hopps. Dream Colony is a book about him written by the fiction editor of The New Yorker, Deborah Treisman. And now the thing...
Thu, 24 Aug 2017 10:46:48 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-24-art/
https://cento.red/2017-08-24-art/Frank O'Hara - Today
Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas!
You really are beautiful! Pearls,
harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins! all
the stuff they’ve always talked about
still makes a poem a surprise!
These things are with us every day
even on beachheads and biers. They
do have meaning. They’re strong as rocks.
[1950]
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 13:21:09 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-23-frank-ohara-today/
https://cento.red/2017-08-23-frank-ohara-today/Atena, 2017
Am descoperit Uber în Atena. Prin Viena nu am folosit decît o singură dată serviciul ăsta de vreme ce transportul în comun aici funcţionează destul de bine. În Atena, nu prea. Pentru a merge la plajă cu maşina ai nevoie de vreo 20 de minute. Cu metroul şi autobuzul –...
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:30:40 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-23-atena-2017/
https://cento.red/2017-08-23-atena-2017/Donald Barthelme – Cu privire la bodyguard
Strigă bodyguardul cumva la femeia care îi calcă mereu cămăşile? Cea care, cu un fier prea încins, i-a făcut o pată maronie pe cămaşa sa galbenă cumpărată scump de la Yves St. Laurent? O pată maronie, destul de mare, chiar deasupra inimii? Oare şeful bodyguardului poartă discuţii cu el, cît...
Wed, 23 Aug 2017 10:14:00 +0200https://cento.red/2017-08-23-cu-privire-la-bodyguard/
https://cento.red/2017-08-23-cu-privire-la-bodyguard/Rachel Swirsky – Dacă ai fi un dinozaur, iubirea mea
Dacă ai fi un dinozaur, iubirea mea, atunci ai fi un T-Rex. Unul micuţ, doar de vreun metru optzeci, la fel de înalt ca tine, omul. Ai fi gingaş şi ai merge atît de delicat şi atent cît ţi-ar permite ghearele masive. Ochii ar privi cu blîndeţe de sub fruntea...
Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:31:16 +0200https://cento.red/2017-06-22-swirsky-dinozaur-18/
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